I decided to stick it out in the frozen north this winter, and booked jobs for 2015 through October 2015. I told all my ADs that I will make up my mind about retirement next summer and if I decide to keep working a bit longer, I will let them all know by early July at the latest. They all said I'm too damned young to retire. When I told them I would be 75 in October 2015, they gasped, and said they would have never guessed.

I figure that after 65 years of working, I should begin doing nothing but fun things. (My first job was delivering circulars for a corner grocery store for .50 cents per hundred.) At age 73, and soon to be 74, I'm still working 5 to 8 jobs a week, which is insane for someone my age. My wife, for the first time in my life, agrees. She said maybe it's time to think seriously about retirement. Of course, declining health issues also have a significant bearing on this decision.

What do you think?

Gary